Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-12-30
DOM ESTIC.

The best part of Wakefield, Wis, is in
ashes.
The New York grand jury found no
bill against Ives.
The Pennsylvania railway system west
of Pittsburg is threatened with strike.
The epidemic of yellow fever in Tampa.
Fla, has been officially declared at an
end.
Twenty-eight horses were burned to
death in Chicago stable Sunday morn
ing.
EX-Secretary of the Treasury Man.
ming died at his home in Albany on sat
urdy.
Mr.. w. W. Corcoran, the Washington
phianthropist. celebrated his ninetieth
birthday Monday.
Nearly two and half millions of dol
lars were disbursed by the Maine pension
office the past year.
DIR. McGlynn says that free trade and
protection will have no place among the
issues of the Labor party.
The report that the United States had
negotiated for parcel post treaty with
Canada is without foundation.
The scarcity of fuel and the cold wealth
er in Kansas have caused much suffering
In some portions OF the state.
The January number of the North
American Review contains scathing re-
view of President Cleveland's message.
Captain Stephen G. Sluyter, who COM
manded the steamer Victoria, which laid
the first cable in 1858, died at Hartford,
Conn, Tuesday night.
The schooner Mary " Collins of Phila-
delphia sank in a gale recently and car
ried down six men, including the captain.
Only one life was saved.
A passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central was wrecked Thursday night
near Fairfield, Wis. Two persons were
killed and about twenty were injured
Ex-Governor Cheney of New Hamp-
shire has been interviewed on the Presi-
dental question, and thinks that New
York ought to name the Republican cam
didate.
One hundred and eighty poor widows
in Boston each received silver half dol
lar Monday from the fund left by the
late William III. Knight, an old-time Bos-
ton merchant.
A Christmas festival in a church at
Fairburg, H., terminated seriously. Fire
caught in a toy cabin containing presents
for the children, Il panic ensued and many
were seriously injured.
Gas worked into the sewers at ROches-
ter n. Y, the other day from the Nacu-
UNI Oil works, and escaping into the
Touring mills wrecked three of them and
killed four men.
Chevalier Ira Paine, the famous pistol
shot, made the wonderful score of 904
points out of a possible 1000, at Provi-
dence, recently, with 44-calibre revol-
yer, shooting 100 shots. The score in
cluded As bLll's-eyes.
Collectors of customs at Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore have
been notified to prevent any violation of
the alien contract law, in view of a threat
ened influx of 1900 Belgian miners for
the Lehigh region.
About forty persons were injured, but
none were killed, by an accident on the
Minnesota and Northwestern railway
while approaching Chicago the other day.
The cars were not set on fire, notwith-
standing they contained old-fashioned
stoves.
horrible story comes from ''NO Mans
Land" out by the Indian territory which
rivals that of the famous Bender family.
A family named Kelly who had been liy-
ing there while suddenly disappeared.
and the settlers near by were led to
search the deserted home. The family
lived in one-story hut, with barn a
short distance away. An investigation
showed that the house had Il cellar, and
in this the decomposed body of "A man
Further searches led to the discovery OF
ten more bodies. Nothing has beef
heard of the Kelleys since they moved
There is feeling, however, that witt
their ill-gotten gains they have gone tt
old Mexico.